MUS 3308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Vertical Integration, Sound Recording And Reproduction, Mobile Music
23 Apr 2016
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The record companies are the heart of the music industry. The music industry embraces a range of other institutions (not just record labels) and associated markets, which can be considered income streams: the most important of these are: Adorno applied this argument, especially towards popular music and the. One master copy and the rest are very cheap to reproduce or to have it heard. A small group of internationally based large corporations spread their interests across a variety of media, including sound recording, resulting in multimedia conglomerates such as time-warner. Ex: bmg owned book publishing, magazines and newspapers, printing and media services, direct marketing groups, online interests, and bmg itself which sold all of these amenities to universal in 2006. Important part of the cultural industries (initial development in 1900s) Has demonstrated 4 characteristics: high concentration of markets, the vertical integration of firms, their transnational and global operation, a dependence on copyright regulations.
